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Re:The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true by n2d4 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:14PM (#39282825)
I believe the Mastodon OP mistranslated the German article, which states:

> Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen.

Correct translation:

> This example, which seems like a Hollywood scenario, actually happened.

But as you can see, if you miss the last part, it's easy to get the translation wrong.

(Interestingly, the Swiss article doesn't directly quote Fortinet as a source, but as an expert opinion. Maybe something was lost in translation there when the story went viral?)

Re:The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true by croes on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:34PM (#39283786)
I think OP wants to say that the only source for such a massive bot net is a tiny newspaper article.

Million dollar damage because a Swiss site wasn't reachable for 4 hours?

I doubt that.

Re:The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true by sschueller on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:13AM (#39303695)
It's Switzerland. Maybe it was a watch website that could sell a few 100k watches...